On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz > wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:44:21AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > My most recent experience with PulseAudio came when I noticed that WoW > > (run through Wine) was producing crackling, stuttering sound again; this > > was during the late months before the wheezy release. > > > > I tried half-a-dozen things, without noticeable change (except for the > > things which led to no sound at all); eventually I noticed that some > > PulseAudio packages had been installed, apparently as recommendations or > > dependencies of other things. I tried a few things to disable use of > > PulseAudio without removing it, without affecting the problem; I then > > removed all *pulse* packages I could, and the problem was > > gone. > > Me too, and I don't even use a DE! One day sound just stopped working. > Removing all of the *pulse* packages I could got sound working again. > I didn't mess with anything either. > > If there _suddenly_ appears a bad smell in your house and you find the > cause, do you a) Remove the cause? b) Waste time by trying to find out why > it smells? I recommend reading up on what 'anecdotal evidence' is, and filling the bug report on PA next time when you encounter a problem instead of pilling up PA issues in debian-devel in order to bash systemd. O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>
